Clip (June 2003) shows parents spanking small children, interviews with a Christian father who spanks, lawyers, and activists, as anti-CP agitators take their case to Canadian Supreme Court.

-- United States: TV news report (Jan 2015) on a Florida father who called on the Sheriff's office to supervise the paddling of his 12-year-old daughter, a service which it turns out they are happy to provide.

-- United States: TV news report (Sep 2014) on the evolving state of parental spanking and different views on it.

A man who spanked his 9-year-old son is shocked to be charged with child abuse, an accusation his lawyer describes as unwarranted. TV report (Feb 2011) from Colorado.

-- United States: Young men whipped by their relatives or other concerned adults. Five clips.

(1) A teenager gets a whipping from his angry uncle's belt.(2) A boy is punished in a light-hearted atmosphere.(3) A young lad is whipped at school by his father.(4) Two youths paddled by, allegedly, their father.(5) A 14-year-old is whipped by the man he tried to rob.

Three TV news films giving CBS, ABC and Fox takes on a 2007 bill (which failed) in Massachusetts that would have outlawed parental corporal punishment in the home. Various parents spanking their bratty toddlers are briefly shown.

(1) Three new entrants are welcomed with a ceremony that leaves them with very sore behinds.(2) From a TV documentary about the Russian army. Rookie soldiers get a taste of the belt from their mates.(3) A soldier bends over his bed for a hard whack with a paddle.(4) A young army lad gets a belting from his dorm mates.

In a humorous advertisement for a chain of sports shoe shops, a young woman tries out various different sneakers with which to punish her boyfriend across the seat of his boxers. Part of our "Spank while you sell" feature on CP imagery in advertising.

(1) Two young men demonstrate the use of the paddle for fun, and its after-effects.(2) An American soldier in Iraq gets a paddle swat from one of his mates.(3) A real one-swat college fraternity paddling.

(1) A man and a woman are each given 7 strokes in 2007. This gives a much clearer picture of the procedure than previous clips.
(2) An earlier and less clear film from local TV in which a man and a woman are punished.

(1) A man gets 80 lashes with a whip while tied to a tree. Not for the squeamish.(2) A poor-quality video of a man receiving about 40 lashes as he is held facing a wall.(3) An offender is caned in public while lying flat on a bench, date unknown.(4) 12 strokes with a whip are administered to a culprit lying flat on the ground.(5) A man receives a public whipping for drinking alcohol.

This relates to the Court of Human Rights decision which condemned Manx JCP. Birches are shown at police station; a policeman explains the rules and regulations. An adjunct to our feature article on birching in the Isle of Man.

-- Jersey: 53 years after being birched as a teenage criminal, an old man is interviewed about it. We also see the contraption used, still in storage after lying idle for 40 years.

-- Kenya: Unofficial community punishment of a woman for adultery, 2015.

Australian TV report, Feb 2011, on Malaysia's efforts, aided by the Australian government, to track down illegal immigrants and the people responsible for smuggling them. The Malaysian authorities remain unrepentant about their tough stance, which includes caning.

(1) Woman sentenced to Sharia caning for drinking beer asks for the punishment to be administered in public. (In fact, it was never administered at all.)
(2) 3-minute TV report (Aug 2009) gives background to the case. Includes an interview with her.

(1) Demonstration on a dummy of the difference between the caning of Muslim men or women by order of religious courts (mild) and the judicial caning of male criminals (severe).
(2) Part of the Syariah caning of a woman is shown. This was one of three, the first-ever canings of women in Malaysia (Feb 2010).

(1) A brief silent glimpse of an official caning in front of a crowd of thousands under the Zia regime, c.1980.
(2) Brief film of a another public caning of that era, and of the offender being carried away afterwards.
(3) Two drug dealers flogged by the Taliban in 2009 in Swat.

-- Pakistan: Eight clips of CP being administered by police in Punjab.

(1) In Punjab, half a dozen prisoners are disembarked from a police van and given a public paddling in the street.(2) A youth is slippered on his bare backside in a Lahore police station.
(3) A young man is similarly punished in a Punjab police station.
(4) In a Punjab police station yard, two offenders receive corporal punishment with the "patta".
(5) An offender receives a caning in a police station.
(6) Several thieves punished in a public place with the "patta" or leather paddle.
(7) More police whippings with the patta.
(8) Seven youths are disciplined with the "patta" in a very public place.

(1) A young man and women are whipped for adultery.
(2) Several men receive CP for using prostitutes, as does a prostitute herself.
(3) Three youthful robbers bend over to be punished across the seat of their jeans.
(4) A boy and a girl are disciplined with the whip for having a sexual relationship.
(5) The special vigilante whip used in Cajamarca is shown being made from bulls' penises.
(6) Three youths are publicly whipped for attempted burglary.
(7) In a different part of Peru, three teen boys are tried and whipped by a village court for stealing. New!

-- Somalia: Two TV news reports of inept public floggings by Islamist militants.

-- Sudan: Public whipping of a woman for wearing trousers (Dec 2010). A very unpleasant scene, made worse by the stupid manner in which it is carried out.

-- Syria/Iraq: Whippings by insurgent forces, including ISIS, who have taken control of parts of both countries. Five films.

(1) May 2013: Two men publicly whipped while lying on the ground.(2) 2013: Alleged informants are whipped on the soles of the feet.(3) Early 2014: Two kneeling men are publicly whipped for unknown reasons.(4) Dec 2013: A standing-up man is publicly whipped for adultery.(5) Early 2015: A kneeling boy is publicly whipped.

(1) Seven army lads get one stroke of the cane in their PE kit in front of their peer group.(2) Seven more soldiers are similarly punished in camouflage fatigues.(3) Two recruits receive a more severe and formal caning. This is a real punishment, not a token ceremony.

The clip relates to a supposed 'controversy' about caning for teenage soldiers at army apprentice school. Also another brief clip, evidently from out-takes (filmed for the same item but not used), of army lads discussing the choice between taking a caning and being confined to barracks. In fact the 'controversy' was manufactured, and CP for British army boys was accepted as quite normal within the service (though rarely mentioned outside it) until the cane was abolished in about 1955.

-- United Kingdom: A man describes getting the cane in the 1930s on a naval training ship.

(1) Five boys each receive four strokes on the backside in front of their class.(2) A boy in army uniform bends over to be caned.(3) A young lady teacher does her best to cane a senior boy amid jocularity.(4) A mass bare-bottom paddling of technical school students.(5) A lady teacher whacks two boys in class with a small stick.(6) Four secondary boys get a quick-fire paddling in class.(7) Secondary students get a hard paddle swat at front of class.(8) A succession of boys and girls are punished with a ruler on the hands.(9) Seven secondary boys vigorously whacked with a broomstick.(10) Twelve senior boys get a brisk classroom caning.(11) Five teenagers bend over a chair for a light paddling.

-- Denmark: The cane, outlawed in 1967, is shown in the Danish School Museum.

-- Ecuador: Two senior students get strapped on the backside in class.

(1) Whipping of young boys and girls.
(2) Ten secondary boys caned.
(3) Four senior boys have to "bend tight" for a hard caning in the English tradition.
(4) Very young students caned at a rural village school. New!

(1) Secondary boys in uniform are lined up at a college in Rawalpindi to receive one stroke of the cane each.
(2) Several students are seen being punished in a schoolyard in Azad Kashmir, under Pakistani rule.
(3) Senior schoolboys caned at a boarding school.
(4) Several college students get whackings in class.
(5) Senior students at a college in Punjab bend over for classroom punishment.
(6) A mass slippering of male school students, witnessed by both sexes.
(7) More of the above.
(8) Mass caning of senior students bending over in a school courtyard.
(9) Caning of a line of kneeling post-secondary students in Peshawar.
(10) An outdoor caning at a college in Punjab.
(11) Several senior boys caned at a college in Kashmir.
(12) Three college students get a mild rulering.

(1) Five young lads get a stroke of the cane each for fighting.(2) An upper secondary student receives two hard strokes of the cane in front of his class.(3) An upper secondary boy bends over on stage to be disciplined in front of the whole school.(4) A secondary boy undergoes a two-stroke caning in front of his classmates.

Several schoolgirls receive six strokes of the cane across the seat of their skirts.

-- South Korea: Nine real-life clips of schoolgirls being caned or paddled on their bottoms.

(1) Three girls are summoned in turn to the front of the class for a caning.(2) Four students paddled by their lady teacher at the front of the class.(3) About a dozen girls are caned in a schoolyard.(4) A female high school student receives five strokes of the cane in front of her class. (Improved version)(5) Two younger girls are given light-hearted taps with a cane.(6) TV news item (in Korean) includes real-life footage of a mass whacking of schoolgirls across the seat of their skirts. This one is serious and not in fun at all.(7) TV news item (in Korean) shows the bruised bottoms of teenage girls caned at a boarding school.(8) A corridor caning for an unpunctual student, in a light-hearted atmosphere.(9) Half a dozen girls, and also two boys, get a caning in front of the class. New!

-- South Korea: Eleven real-life clips of schoolboys receiving school discipline across the seat of their trousers.

(1) Two secondary boys are briskly caned in a school corridor.(2) A boy faces the blackboard to be punished with what looks like a ruler.(3) Four senior students bend over the desk for a severe caning.(4) A secondary boy is given a very hard paddling in the classroom.(5) Four students receive strokes of the cane in a jocular atmosphere.(6) A secondary student in the classic Korean punishment position receives 10 swats.(7) Three senior students assume the customary Korean position for a vigorous caning in class.(8) A mass classroom paddling for a queue of high-school boys.(9) A student receives six whacks with a metre rule.(10) A schoolboy is reluctant to submit to a caning but eventually accepts two hard strokes.(11) 17 mid-teen students in a mass classroom caning.

(1) Five secondary students receive a routine paddling in a corridor.(2) A teenager is vigorously rulered on the buttocks by his female teacher.(3) A high-school student receives a firm paddling at the front of the class.

(1) A male secondary student is caned on the seat in a jocular classroom atmosphere.(2) Three boys are vigorously chastised amid hilarity.(3) A mass caning session, with three boys and four girls punished.

(1) Three teen boys receive canings across their bottoms for mistakes in an English assignment.(2) A young student is punished on the hands in class.(3) Two boys are caned by their lady teacher.(4) A secondary boy gets a brisk paddling at the teacher's desk.(5) Boy bends over for punishment with a broomstick.(6) Two boys each receive a brisk caning over the teacher's desk.(7) A hard paddling at the front of the class for a secondary student.(8) Three young boys are caned at the blackboard.(9) A young student receives a brisk 5-swat paddling.

(1) At a Christian school, a lady teacher gives a student one stroke of the cane.(2) A mass caning of eight senior boys in a jocular atmosphere.(3) Another jocular mass caning at a boys' school.(4) Two boys receive a stroke of the cane each from their lady teacher.(5) Three boys caned at the front of a rowdy classroom.

(1) Two boys at a Christian school receive one stroke of the cane each.(2) A caning is glimpsed through a classroom window.(3) A mass caning of nine students at a secondary technical school.(4) At the same technical school, more schoolboy canings.(5) Two boys get a stroke of the cane each in the midst of a ball game in the schoolyard.(6) Caning of morning latecomers outside the school.(7) Two schoolboys lightly caned in class.(8) Canings in the schoolyard. New!

(1) A number of students get the ruler on the hand.(2) Several girls and boys receive posterial canings in a jocular atmosphere.(3) Eight boys and two girls are given three strokes of the cane each.(4) Half a dozen boys and one girl receive four strokes each across their bottoms.(5) Boys and girls queue up on arriving at school to be caned on the seat for lateness.(6) Mass outdoor canings of students at morning assembly.(7) Practically a whole class of students are lightly caned outside their classroom.(8) A girl and six boys receive a sharp caning.

(1) Half a dozen schoolgirls are caned on their buttocks.(2) About 20 girls are punished amid jocularity in a mixed class.(3) A female student receives one stroke of the cane in a formal setting.(4) 13 strokes of the cane for a teen.(5) A secondary schoolgirl is seen through a window receiving three strokes of the cane.(6) Two more female students receive a caning.(7) Three senior schoolgirls get three strokes of the cane each in front of the class.(8) Classroom canings of girls for poor work.(9) Nine hard strokes of the cane.(10) Five girls caned in a jocular atmosphere. New!

In the dormitory of a boarding school in Tonga, a 2011 mass whacking of teen boys by prefects that goes on for nearly 20 minutes. Also an Australian TV news item about the controversy excited by the case.

A BBC feature in two parts (October 2008) about the implications of a survey which found that 20% of British teachers would still like to have corporal punishment brought back in schools.
In the second part, the show's presenter is persuaded to take a caning from a real schoolmaster.

BBC TV news report (2007) in which present-day students are shown how the belt was administered, 25 years after it disappeared from Scottish state schools.

-- United Kingdom: 1982 TV news item about European Court of Human Rights ruling in the Scottish tawse case.

Clip shows tawse being made, staged shots of tawse in use, report on implications of court judgment for CP in UK schools.

-- United Kingdom: TV news report, 2006: The Scottish school belt (tawse) rests in the museum; a local politician calls for it to be brought back.

-- United States: Real school paddlings caught on camera. Page 1.Nine clips of real-life American school paddlings under way.

(1) High school seniors get licks in the hallway.(2) More of the same.(3) A student gets a hard one-swat paddling from coach in the locker room.(4) A high school boy chooses a paddle swat instead of referral for skipping class.(5) A student receives five moderate licks with the paddle in a Mississippi high school hallway.(6) In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat.(7) A very brief glimpse of a hard paddle swat administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana.(8) A young boy gets a paddling in the school gym in a jocular atmosphere.(9) A jocular one-swat paddling in a Mississippi classroom.

-- United States: Real school paddlings caught on camera. Page 2.Six more clips of real-life American school paddlings under way.

(1) Two senior girls are paddled in class in a highly jocular atmosphere.(2) Three paddle swats each for two Louisiana high-school students.(3) A young boy is paddled.(4) Two one-swat high-school paddlings briefly glimpsed.(5) Fleeting glimpse of another high-school paddling.(6) A high-school boy gets two paddle swats in the classroom.

-- United States: TV news report (Feb 2015) about an attempt to abolish school paddling in Tennessee.

-- United States: Four TV news reports (Nov 2014) about school paddling in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Texas.

-- United States: TV news report (Oct 2014) about a school paddling in Arkansas.

-- United States: Two TV news reports (Sep 2014) about school paddling in Texas.

(1) A mother complains that her seventh-grade son's paddling was excessive.

(2) A more general piece about paddling in certain East Texas school districts, and what people think about it.

-- United States: TV news report (June 2014) on the acquittal on assault charges of a paddling school principal in Mississippi.

-- United States: Birthday spanking at a High School in North Carolina causes controversy (May 2014). Part of the spanking is shown.

-- United States: TV news report (Apr 2014) with comments on a legislative attempt to ban school paddling in Missouri.

-- United States: TV news report (Mar 2014) on a newly created school district in Tennessee that has decided to introduce corporal punishment.

-- United States: Three TV news reports (Feb 2014) on school paddling issues.

(1) In Mississippi, a complaint about CP at a private school.(2) More on the Mississippi case, and a look at the legal situation. Is transient bruising "bodily harm"?(3) Focus on Tennessee, where one school district is contemplating reintroducing the paddle.

(1) A Georgia mother complains about the paddling of her daughter.(2) A Florida high-school coach is in trouble over birthday spankings.(3) A Florida school district reintroduces CP, which it had earlier banned.

-- United States: TV news report (Mar 2013) about a boy's paddling at a private school in Mississippi.

Five clips from Texas, four of them covering a controversy about male administrators spanking girls, the other from a district where paddling is alive and well and everybody is happy; and one clip from a Florida district considering reintroducing CP.

-- United States: TV news report, July 2012: A school district in Tennessee decides that parents will be assumed to consent to CP unless they state to the contrary in writing (instead of the other way round).

-- United States: Two TV news reports, June 2012: A school district in Arkansas reintroduces corporal punishment after a lapse of several years.

(1) A North Carolina school district abolishes corporal punishment, though many local parents would have wished it kept.(2) Interview with Rev. Kenneth Whalum of the Memphis (TN) school board, who wants paddling brought back.(3) A Texas high school principal is suspended over allegations that he paddled a student too hard. Bruises are seen.

-- United States: TV news report, Mar 2012: A school district in North Carolina gives up the paddle after finding that it had the second highest number of spankings in the state.

(1) Paddling is alive and well in some parts of Georgia. Statistics and interviews.
(2) Schools in rural Texas explain their paddling policies, for which there is local support. A student prefers receiving CP to other punishments.

-- United States: TV news report, Jan 2012: Mother complains about school paddling of her son, even though she had given permission for it.

-- United States: TV news report, Dec 2011: Teacher accused of spanking in an SC district where CP is not permitted.

-- United States: TV news report, Nov 2011: Paddling practice of schools in a part of Louisiana.

-- United States: TV news report, Oct 2011: reactions to new law in North Carolina under which parents may exempt their students from CP.

(1) New legislation proposed in Texas to limit school CP. A student describes his paddling.
(2) School paddling as viewed in an ethnic minority area of Texas.
(2) Corporal punishment alive and well in a district of south-west Georgia.

(1), (2) and (3) Three items about the latest developments at St Augustine in New Orleans.
(4) and (5) Reports on a new billboard campaign against corporal punishment in schools.
(6) A rally to support a proposed ban on paddling in Texas.
(7) and (8) Two reports about a mass march on the archdiocese in the ongoing attempt to restore paddling at St Augustine High in New Orleans.
(9) News item on a teacher in Florida who seems to have got a bit carried away.

-- United States: Five TV news reports on school CP from February 2011:

(1) Texas mother complains after son, 11, is paddled at school.
(2) Prospects for the return of CP to Memphis schools.
(3) New push to ban paddling in Texas.
(4) and (5) Two reports about demonstrations over the ban on paddling at St Augustine High in New Orleans.

-- United States: Two TV news reports on school CP from December 2010:

(1) A fuss in Texas about two 17-year-old girls paddled for going to the toilet without permission.
(2) The Mississippi basketball coach at the centre of a row over paddling returns to work; not everybody is pleased.

-- United States: Three TV news reports from November 2010 about school paddling:

(1), (2) Complaints about a basketball coach spanking high school players with a belt in Jackson, Mississippi, where corporal punishment is not permitted by the school district. PLUS: actual footage of one of the beltings caught on camera.
(3) A school district in Louisiana revises its CP rules, notably to allow for parental choice.

-- United States: Two TV news reports from September 2010 about school paddling:

(1) A school district in North Carolina is amending its spanking policy.
(2) A look at corporal punishment in Arkansas schools.

-- United States: Two TV news reports from June 2010 about an attempt to reintroduce school paddling in Memphis, Tennessee.

-- United States: Four TV news stories from May 2010 about school paddling:

(1) A teacher in Dallas, where paddling was outlawed a few years ago, is campaigning for its return.
(2) East Texans split over corporal punishment.
(3) In Mississippi, a school accidentally paddles a boy whose mother had opted him out of CP.
(4) An Alabama school district gives parents a say in whether students are spanked.

(1) At a high school in Alabama, 17 students are paddled for inappropriate attire at the senior prom.
(2) An attempt is being made in Congress to outlaw school paddling nationally. Report gives a Texas perspective.
(3) Report from Alvin, TX, where some schools still use CP.
(4) Schools in Temple, Texas, report improved behavior following the reintroduction a year ago of the paddle.
(5) Another short take on the Temple TX story, this time from distant Oregon.

(1) Teachers in an Arkansas school want CP to be brought back.
(2) TV crew visits a district in North Carolina with the most paddlings in the state, but also one of the lowest levels of violent incidents.
(3) Another N. Carolina district with a relatively high spanking rate, but a low drop-out rate.

-- United States: TV news report, Nov 2008: A Texas woman complains about her son's paddling at school, even though she gave permission for it.

-- United States: TV news report, Oct 2008: Corporal punishment is illegal in Chicago schools, but it turns out that sports coaches at several schools there have been paddling students. There is a brief and distant glimpse of a paddling caught on security camera.

-- United States: A follow-up report (Dec 2008) on the above. Two coaches are fired for illegal paddling in Chicago schools.

-- United States: Paddling news from Missouri. Two TV news items from September 2008.

(1) Report on paddling policies in the north-east of the state, after a mother moves there from a non-paddling state and is shocked to discover that CP is on the books.
(2) A principal in another part of Missouri is found to have done no wrong in administering a paddling about which the student's mother complained.

These 7 excerpts from news shows on various US TV channels (in Arkansas, Kentucky, N. Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas) all come from August 2008. They relate to various decisions to abolish or extend school CP and, in particular, use the publication of an anti-CP ACLU/Human Rights Watch report as a peg on which to hang coverage of CP practice in their area. Two clips include interviews with paddled students. Scroll down the page to find each clip in its context.

-- United States: Three excerpts from a TV documentary about a paddling school in Arkansas.

From a "fly-on-the-wall" TV series (Aug 2008) about schools and their principals, these clips show the process whereby errant students at an Arkansas high school may opt for a paddling in lieu of Saturday school. Two such punishments are heard on the soundtrack from inside the principal's office -- one paddling of a boy and one of a girl. The students who received them, and the principal, are interviewed.

-- United States: Three TV news reports from April 2008 on parents complaining about school paddlings.

(1) TV news item from Jan 2008 about the paddling of a student. His mother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained when it left marks on his rear. An investigation found there had been no abuse or wrongdoing on the part of the school.
(2) Another TV report about the same case.

News report (Dec 2007) about the paddling of a boy, 11, in a Tennessee middle school. His grandmother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained that the swats were too hard. The district superintendent is interviewed.

June 2007: Memphis school board meeting at which concerns are expressed over the consequences of abolishing CP. Two TV news reports, one before and one after the meeting. A school board member who wants paddling to be brought back is interviewed.

A further follow-up to the previous two items. TV news report from Memphis school board town hall meeting in July 2007 over continuing controversy about the Blue Ribbon Plan, which abolished CP. Speakers at the meeting are seen calling for the return of the paddle, and a nubile hackette waves a paddle around for the camera.

TV news report (August 2007) about another Memphis school board town hall meeting. At this one, not a single speaker from the floor agreed with the Blue Ribbon Plan, under which paddling was abolished.

May 2008 and the dispute over CP in Memphis (see previous items) has not gone away. Now the city's Mayor, addressing the school board directly, calls for paddling to be brought back.

-- United States: Members of the public are interviewed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2007, on their views about corporal punishment in school in light of a bill to abolish paddling in the state.

(1) A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly.
(2) Two-minute clip (Jan 2007) gives brief overview of CP situation in North Carolina.

-- United States: TV news anchor Shepard Smith describes getting paddled at his private school in the late 1970s.

-- United States: TV news report (2005) on unsuccessful efforts to get school paddling banned in a district of North Carolina.

TV news item from 2006 about allegations that a basketball coach at a high school in Virginia (where CP is banned in public schools) made members of the team take turns to spank one of their number.

-- United States: Three TV news reports (2006) about school paddling. Two are about a mass paddling of boys by the football coach at a middle school in Mississippi. The other is a visit to Texas where a school principal has reinstated CP to general approval, and includes a boy and a girl submitting to demonstration paddlings for the camera.

(1) A secondary boy gets two strokes of the cane at the blackboard.(2) Six boys come forward in turn for one paddle swat each in a jocular atmosphere.(3) Another jocular punishment scene in the same setting as clip 2.(4) 13 boys are caned (two strokes each on seat) at the blackboard.(5) Younger boys paddled while lying across a desk.(6) High-school boy punished two strokes by his lady teacher.(7) 12 boys rulered at a high school in Saigon.(8) A young lad plays the fool while being punished with a metre rule.(9) In a more serious atmosphere, a mass paddling of students.(10) Four students paddled in tracksuit uniform.(11) Young boy in school uniform gets three whacks with a metre rule.(12) Two high-school students paddled by their lady teacher in a neutral atmosphere.

-- Vietnam: Mass canings of schoolgirls are caught on camera. Two clips.